Grumman FB-2G Grebe - FINISHED - pic's pg.5

[The Big Gimper]

Awesome styrene surgery!!!

Did you flip the wings or just the engines to get the top-wing mount?

[Old Wombat]

Thanks guys!


The nacelles have been flipped & fitted to the opposite wings, I've also cut off the front of the nacelles & re-attached them right-side up, & I've fitted the rear section of the nacelle (a separate unit) up the right way ... hence the big V-shaped gap at the rear.



Now, back to the PSR!

[Old Wombat]

There is movement on this but it's the slow & painstaking scratch-build construction of a "Catalina"-style main-gear system.

So far pretty happy with the results but still a fair way to go.

I might do photo's tomorrow, if I get the chance, just to give you a sneak preview.

 :)

[Old Wombat]

Here they are;

Landing gear (still a WiP):


The Grebe with wings dry-fitted:


Cheers, All! :)

[kitnut617]

Very nice job on that landing gear Guy   :) :) :)  The top strut should have a hinge in the middle, when doing my Sunderland's gear I had thought it was a hydraulic cylinder but then I had an opportunity to look at a real Catalina/Canso gear while at a museum and saw that it was a rigid strut with a hinge midway, where the strut folded in half as it retracted.  There was a cylinder too, but it attaches to the top wish-bone like this below

[Kerick]

This is looking so good it makes me want to build one!
Grumman greyhound fuselage with the six blade turbo props and a t tail?

[Old Wombat]

Very nice job on that landing gear Guy   :) :) :)  The top strut should have a hinge in the middle, when doing my Sunderland's gear I had thought it was a hydraulic cylinder but then I had an opportunity to look at a real Catalina/Canso gear while at a museum and saw that it was a rigid strut with a hinge midway, where the strut folded in half as it retracted.  There was a cylinder too, but it attaches to the top wish-bone like this below

Yeah, mine's a long way short of the white-metal stuff but it will, soon, have an imitation joint on the main strut - when I've worked out the best spot for it (probably the middle). :)

[finsrin]

This is love king so good it makes me want to build one!
Grumman greyhound fuselage with the six blade turbo props and a t tail?

With right pieces combined the right way as on FB-2G;  "it makes me want to build one."  --  too.
Is extra interesting cuz I worked on flight line that included S-2 Trackers. 
Enjoy progress pictures.  Keep posting. :)

[andonio64]

Very nice work!
I love the cockpit and the new shape of the fuselage!
Brilliant!

Antonio

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Very nice job on that landing gear Guy   :) :) :)  The top strut should have a hinge in the middle, when doing my Sunderland's gear I had thought it was a hydraulic cylinder but then I had an opportunity to look at a real Catalina/Canso gear while at a museum and saw that it was a rigid strut with a hinge midway, where the strut folded in half as it retracted.  There was a cylinder too, but it attaches to the top wish-bone like this below

Yeah, mine's a long way short of the white-metal stuff but it will, soon, have an imitation joint on the main strut - when I've worked out the best spot for it (probably the middle). :)

This might be a bit late but what about the Grumman Albatross landing gear?  Not quite the same as the Catalina but it did fold up into the sides of the fuselage. 

[Old Wombat]

Thanks for that, Jeff! :)

I hadn't looked at the Albatross landing gear for some strange reason but, looking at it, I appear to have come up with a bit of a cross between it & the Catalina gear (mostly Cat, thuough).

So, I'm happy with my idea, I just need to execute it correctly, now.

[Old Wombat]

Right! Getting to a point where photo's should follow in a couple of days.

Had to rebuild the landing gear (a measurement error meant they were too short).

Wheel wells are done, floats & struts are done, wings & tail are on, comm's dome fitted to the tail & EPIRB/PLB locator domes fitted to the wings.

Still a tiny bit of PSR & some odds-&-ends to be fitted, then I'll hit it with a coat of grey primer & take some photo's.


Thanks for your patience! :)

[Old Wombat]

Photo's:




















There is still some touch-up & fix-up work to be done (primer's good like that ) but, pretty much, ready for the (very basic) paint scheme.

Decals are another issue. Printing my own has become a non-event. I may be able to wing it with what I have, though. We'll see.

She's going to be a "Royal Australian Navy Coast Guard" SAR bird.


Cheers!

[AXOR]

Looks better and better  :)

[Jeffry Fontaine]

That is some amazing work with the landing gear.  Along with the rest of this project it has been quite a metamorphosis from two kits with different scales in to this almost finished project. 

Bravo Zulu! 

[GTX_Admin]

Damn!  That is looking great.

[kitnut617]

Damn!  That is looking great.

Yeah! the transformation is brilliant 

[ericr]

impressive !

[Old Wombat]

Thanks heaps, gents!

[Brian da Basher]

It's coming together seamlessly!

Fantastic and it was a blast catching up!

Brian da Basher

[Kerick]

Will it be yellow like a CL 215 or red and white?

[Volkodav]

I am loving this

[andonio64]

Impressive work, so cute and neat!
 

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, guys!

kerick: Still working on the colours but ... "Yes!"

[Old Wombat]

Two colours on. Two to go. :)